About Angela
Angela Dockins is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Missouri with 16 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel stuck by offering steady, compassionate support and clear steps toward change. Her approach is warm and nonjudgmental, and she aims to meet people where they are in their lives.
Angela spends time listening to what matters most to each person and then breaks larger problems into manageable steps.
How Angela works
She works with issues like stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, addiction, and struggles with self-esteem. She also helps people dealing with relationship and intimacy concerns, sleep problems, and major life changes. Her work draws on practical methods such as cognitive behavioral strategies, acceptance and commitment ideas, dialectical skills, and EMDR for processing difficult memories.
Sessions focus on building skills to manage strong emotions, shifting unhelpful thinking, and practicing new behaviors between meetings. Angela emphasizes small, realistic goals that add up over time. People who find therapy helpful often want a therapist who listens carefully and offers clear tools to try between sessions.
Angela frames treatment as a shared process where the person guides priorities and she helps plan and track progress. That collaborative stance is meant to make change feel achievable. She offers care by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging and tailors the way she works to fit each person's needs and daily life.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step are used to connect people and set up the first session.
Angela lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Angela works with
The areas below are the ones Angela selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Angela uses cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and EMDR in her clinical work. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new, more balanced ways of thinking and acting; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and behavior change. Acceptance and commitment therapy encourages noticing painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choosing actions that match personal values to move life forward. EMDR is a method used to process distressing memories so they feel less disruptive and can be integrated into everyday life.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. She collaborates with each person to decide which methods make the most sense based on symptoms, goals, and preferences. That means trying a skill-based strategy, a values-focused plan, or memory processing depending on what is most helpful at the time.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different routines. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and practice of skills, phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports real-time back-and-forth without audio, and messaging lets people check in between sessions and keep a written record of progress. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other daily commitments.
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